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What Does God Hear? | Pr Sandra Chin
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You're listening to a message to go from Axs Church.
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We hope this message will light up your tea.
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So the first thing, what does he hear? Number one?
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All right, they're all about one bighitting, But never mind.
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I want to tell you what he hears. He hears
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the cry from the righteous. Come on, let's ten to
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our bibles. Psalm thirty four and verse fifteen seventeen.
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Have I got it? Yes? What does he hear? Yes?
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Some thirty four and verse fifteen or seventeen. So if
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you go to Psalms thirty four you will see that
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verse there, okay. P. Thirty four, verse fifteen seventeen. It
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says the eyes first, he starts with the eyes of
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the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are
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open to that cry. So look, his eyes are open
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to the eyes eyes are on the righteous, and his
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ears are open to their cry. So I've summarized it
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to say that he hears the cry of the righteous.
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Help me of the righteous in the house today, who
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come on all of us, your hands up. If you
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have Jesus in your life, you are the righteous, because
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He has clothed you with the robes of righteousness.
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Amen.
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So the righteous cry out, and the Lord Yes, okay, yeah,
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are you in the verse, And the righteous cry out,
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and the Lord and delivers them out of their troubles too,
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versus there. So yeah, if you can turn to your bibles,
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it'll be great today. If you brought your bibles, that'd
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be great. Thank you XTV as well for helping. If
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you have your bibles, turn to your bibles so we
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can read the Word of God.
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So the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous.
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I want you to be affirm and be assured that
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if you are the righteous of the Lord. And you
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are when you follow Christ, he has clothes with his
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robe of righteousness, and you trust him.
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He hears his ears are.
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Open to your cry. Amen. And when the righteous cry out?
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Have you cried out lately? Righteous people?
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Yeah? Have you cried or cry out?
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And I'm like, Lord, I need your help. And he
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delivers them out of their troubles. And that is what
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he hears. He hears the cry of the righteous. Next
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he also hears those who fear the Lord. Those who
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fear the Lord.
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Amen.
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So the Lord hears those who fear the Lord. Now
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what does that mean when you say fear the Lord?
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Someone for five and verse nineteen. Someone for five and
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verse nineteen. It says he will fulfill the desires of
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those who fear him. He will also know what is
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the operative word here that cry and save them. So
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I wanted you to catch the operative word. I say,
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what does God hear? And here's the word.
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He hears those who fear the Lord.
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So in that p ssum, he will fulfill the desire
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of those who fear him, and He also will hear
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their cry and save them. So the righteous cry out,
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those who fear the Lord fear me is not like
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is scared of you know, but those who honor the Lord,
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those who honor God, those who are able to live.
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You know, to please God is that's the word fear
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of the word fear of the Lord is to honor
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is to want to please God. Who you are aware.
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You are aware of God's presence. Therefore you know that
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he will hear your cry or he will hear your prayer.
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Amen.
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So I just want to say, so if you you
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know what does God hear? So we he hears the righteous.
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He hears those who fear Him, who honor him, or
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who please Him, who like you know when it's like
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you know, the story goes like this, like when pass
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and I, okay, maybe I won't use post.
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I will use myself because my husband's not here. Uh
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you know where what do you feel means?
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Because you honor, you don't want to, you know, make
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this person upset or think us less. So one time
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I went to do a wedding in Bali. I was
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invited to do a wedding in Bali for our partners
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end up Singapore. So they flew me to Bali and
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we did the wedding there and then at night was
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the dinner and so there was tables and tables dinner
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and this, uh, this particular person or one of the
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of the couple, they own a business with other partners
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or non Christian and they're actually in the alcohol business.
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They run a bar, free flow alcohol serving. I'm like, okay,
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but on my table, everybody's very quiet.
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Very good.
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Nobody there drink because I'm not drinking. I won't drink
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like you know I don't, So everybody were good and good.
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Everybody's very mile.
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Then because I had a four am flight to fly
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back to Malaysia. Although I offered to stay and stay on,
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but I want to go to church, and I'm in
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some somewhere I don't know where.
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I was rich placed in BALI. I said, I'm never
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my house.
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So we will pay you. We pay the room for you,
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a ready stay. I already came to one night over
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and I said, I'm coming home. I'll just want to
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attend church. So I was the only one leaving that
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morning at four am, so I said I have to go,
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So good night everybody. I'm going back early, like sleeping,
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awake up early. Right.
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I was the only one to go. But later I
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saw some photos.
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There was only dancing happy Oka's okay, you celebrate all
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the drinking.
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I'm like, oh my god, this this is why they
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fear me. They don't drink.
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So when you're in front of God, not but do
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it behind as well. When you honor that person, don't drink,
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don't drink.
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Okay. And so that's why I mean, you know you
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you you know that God is holy. I want to
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honor God.
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I want to please go. I don't do that, but
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I want to say, even behind him and in front
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of him, we do the same thing consistent. Nor when
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I walk outs to his God terrible AI So not all,
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but I mean my leaders were all right, but the
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rest of the members were there so happy. The free
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flow of alcohol. All right, make them happy. Thank you
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to Jesus, makes us happy.
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Hallelujah. All right.
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So when you fear the Lord again, I'm giving you
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the keys of the kingdom to know what God hears
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and therefore how you should pray. Don't come away. Never
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here did you come righteous? But I am righteous. I'm
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righteous in the blood of the Lamb.
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Amen.
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Did you come knowing that you are the Lord? You
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are the child of God. You fear the Lord, You
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honor the Lord. You please the Lord. You want to
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make God please with you.
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Amen. He hears dead prayer, dead cry. Amen.
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So the first one is what he hears, the cry
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the righteous, second, those who fear the Lord.
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Amen.
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And then thirdly he hears those who call upon him
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in truth. Wow, you call upon him in truth? So
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someone for five and verse eighteen, Someone for five and
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verse eighteen.
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If you can turn to that, So what does it say?
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The Lord is near to all who call upon him,
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to all who call upon him in truth?
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Everyone say truth? Amen? Truth? All right? So what do
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we mean by that?
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So in my deduction, as I studied that do how
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do I call upon him in truth? I feel that
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when we come to the Lord and you are going
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to something or maybe your day to day. You know,
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sometimes we may go to different things and that you
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might have offended someone, someone offended you, or you don't
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really like a situation. When you come to the Lord,
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I think something. We are quite shy to tell the
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Lord the truth? Right, we beat around the bushwit God,
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like you know lot?
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You know lot? I do that Now, I'm like, forget it.
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Just tell the Lord the truth and name the person
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that you're upset with you and say I'm sorry, but
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this person really frustrates me, okay, And then you you
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tell the truth.
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Why, God, I feel this? Why irritated with this? But
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so why? Because what's in your heart? Only you know,
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no one else knows.
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Outside you might be smiling, I mean sometimes I will
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show my two colors, like, oh not ape with you?
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All right? But why you're not happy with me? Can
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I say? Sometimes? Okay? Why?
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But just either your insecurity or you're just upset with something.
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But when you turn every day or do quiet timer,
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then you must tell the Lord the truth rather than
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beat around the bushy. Jesus because he says, I know.
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But when you say you have confessed it out, you
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hear yourself say you speak the truth. And then you say, okay,
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Lord forgive me, because there's not christ like at all.
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If I feel that way about someone, but I better
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deal with it. If I should confront, then I should
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confront and speak about it. If it's just me having
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your own something you don't like mine, it's your problem,
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not people chicken. You don't lie, it's not your what
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you say that right, I'm biger man. You get this
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your problem, all right, I'm bigan. You like chicken, I
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don't like it. Angry people eat meet right, So that's
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my problem. Will tell Jesus I'm sorry, all right, I'm
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not being good?
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All right? Maybe I should get there.
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Okay, But those who the Lord is near, to all
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who call upon him, and to all who call upon
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him in truth church. Keys again, I'm giving you a key.
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If you want to talk to Jesus, come with truth.
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You like the girl, you say you like the girl.
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If you did something that you're not proud of last summer,
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you just tell Jesus the truth. What you did, where
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your hand, when, where your eyes were? And wear your liquid.
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You better tell Jesus the truth. Then he will hear
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your cry and then you'll be delivered from your problems.
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Otherwise you hide here, Hi that you cannot hide with God.
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He knows.
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But when you speak it, you are actually opening up
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your whole person. You know, the devil won't have a
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hold on you. You've already confessed it, and you set
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it out to the Lord. And if you need an accountability,
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you speak it to someone you trust who watches over
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your your heart, leader, whatever your past. When you say it,
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the devil has no hold on you. So if we
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keep hiding all the things that we did last summer,
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and the devil says, I know, you say, yeah, so
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what I already confessed it to Jesus. Come on, I've
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already told it to my heart a leader, and I
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am I'm working in God's freedom and if I fail,
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I will get up one more time and I'll confess
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it again. But when we talk to the Lord in truth,
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God sees our hearts and we also be clear, the
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vessel will be clean and clear. Nothing to hide, no blockage, right,
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you know, heart problem, because we got blockage. We don't
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want hot spiritual heart problem no blockage. Just tell Jesus
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the truth, and the truth will set you pray. Not
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only what you know said you free. What you speak
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truthfully was set us free. And I and I've lived this,
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and I know when you don't tell the truth, you're
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not free. Remember I told you, I like to my mom,
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you remember that story about to my mom? Nineteen years
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old dating dating out of my parents' permission. Wanted to
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date my church brother. Went to see a movie with
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the church brother, right, because you like Nima, okay to me,
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I'm having a relationship.
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To my parents like, no, you can't.
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You're very strict, very strict, old God and everything now.
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And then I went to the movie when to watch
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movie and nineteen sdpm? I took STPM. No, I came home,
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didn't tell mom. Mom said what did you do? Why
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are you so late studying library? The face cannot cannot hide.
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Wow.
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She just came out and wagged me like not being
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like what you're like to me? I call your best friend,
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best friend, best friend man And told mom she went
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the movie what not my best friend? And and you
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know there's no When there's no truth, then you get
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clogged up. And Mam was very angry with me for many, many,
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many months. But I went to Jesus and I told
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the Lord, and the Lord forgive me. I knew that
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I went very very down. But as you honestly say
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to the Lord, then the Lord brings his word, and
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God led me through his to the word, discipled me
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to his word, and I confess.
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And I went to say sorry to mom. Mom never
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forgive me.
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For the longest time she refused to talk to me
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because I like to herla.
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But after that, no, again, big lesson. I cannot.
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I cannot lie my face of so I cannot lie,
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very very difficult. So don't lie, Just don't lie. Right,
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But these are lessons we go through.
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We lie to.
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Your mom, your spouse, your friend, your pastor don't lie.
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Just just just pray about it.
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For say, come and tell her true because only God once,
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only you know, He hears us when we come to
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him in truth.
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Amen. Can I get an amen? Amen?
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Another one? Okay, what does he hear? And I tell
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you what he hears, God hears the faith.
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Feel desperate cry? Have you had a desperate cry? But
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it was full of faith? Oh?
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Come on, another key for you here for just knowing
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what God hears, and we want to we want to
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be having breakthroughs Amen in our breath, in our prayer, life,
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in our walk with Jesus. So Mark chapter seven, verse
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twenty six to thirty. Mark chapter seven, verse twenty six
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to thirty was this. You know, Jesus was coming into
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this town and then he thought he could like have
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a break. He went to the region of Tire in Sidon,
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and then he tried to go to a house and
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there was this woman. Okay, now, don't blame it any woman.
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This woman was a mama. She was a mom, and
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she had a child and that child was not well.
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That child was possessed right, and she had an unclean
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spirit in her and you know it was really tough
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for the mom. She don't know what to do already.
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So this woman was not just any woman. She was
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a someone who was not Jewish.
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She was a Greek. She was a cyril.
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Phoenician lady, okay, and her problem was her daughter with
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her daughter had an unclean spirit and it was hurting
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her child. So the mom was desperate. But she came
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and found Jesus was trying to take a break. Like
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sometimes maybe the pasta times to take a break. Everybody
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busy New Years come, okay, So Jesus trying to take
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a break. I'm sure he was busy. He was all
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human when he walked on planet Earth. So he went
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quietly to some I don't know where you went to
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someone's house if you read that.
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But this lady found him, and so she came.
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So he goes he could not be hidden right as
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he entered the house. He wanted no one to know it.
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I know a lot of us don't want anybody to
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know it. By the way, congratulations, has a been them goco?
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All right? You don't know what it is? You ask them?
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All right, So you know hiding, right, just couldn't hid it,
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just couldn't hide it. I just can't hide it, all right.
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And so Jesus couldn't hide. You entered the room.
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I went to the house. And so this young this
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woman with a young child, young daughter. She says, siril phoonicition,
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she's not you. She was a Greek, and so she
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came to Jesus asking that Jesus would heal her daughter,
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would cast out the demon out of her daughter.
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And then you know, at this point, I want.
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To say, if Jesus was past to Jesus, I think
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you all will leave him.
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You will leave his church, because look at his answer.
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She said, Jesus, please cast out that demon from my daughter,
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the unclean spirit.
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What does Jesus say to her? Jesus says to.
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Her, let the children be filled first, for it is
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not good to take the children's bread and throw it
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to the little dogs, who he is calling a dog.
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The Greek lady. Not because he's being rude. This is known.
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If anyone studies literature, you would have read this in
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the Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, a story there goes
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I so didn't know when I studied that book.
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That was this shylock.
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He was the money lender, and he would talk to
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those who are not Jews, and he says you dogs, Like,
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what are you talking about?
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Dogs? We're calling people dogs. So the Jews have this thing.
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They feel like they are really the upper cross and
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everybody else dogs.
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That's how they do that. In first, because God is
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with us. But they should know how to love, because
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God loved that. They should love people are right, But
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they got a bit proud, so they used to call
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everybody else dogs. So Jesus says, hey, I have to
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give it to the children first, then you give the dogs. No.
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If you and I were there that day.
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I don't know what you say, Steven, I don't know
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what you say. Mad I know what you say. Go
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go p's to Jesus.
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How rude. I will remove my membership from your church,
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go elsewhere because someone else will give me attention. Does
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she do that? Look at her.
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She's a mom who has an urgent need. Don't play
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with mamsa all the mamas in the house. When your
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child is sick and you need help, you are gonna
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go for it.
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She said this, undeterred. She said, yes, Lord.
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Yes, Yet even the little dogs under the table eat
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from the children's crumbs.
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So even if you give me crumbs, Jesus, I'll take it.
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Because her faith failed, the desperate cry was that she knew.
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She heard that when Jesus praise people get healed and delivered.
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She heard the testimony. She needed that miracle. She ain't
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gonna let Jesus go. Even though he said to her, sorry,
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I can't do this for you because I cannot give
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to the dogs, she not, deed, you don't care what
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you call me, but even little dogs will take the crumbs.
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So Jesus, even if you give me the crumbs, I'm
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gonna take it. She was desperate. She had a faith
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that she heard from the testimony. How will people have faith?
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The faith comes by hearing, hearing of the word of God.
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She heard the testimony, she said, if that person got
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delivered and from unclean spirit, my child.
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I need my child to be healed.
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Any parent here, when you when your child is not well,
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when your child ever has an issue, you will knock
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on doors until you get an answer. This lady said,
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I don't care you me crumbs. I will uncle Jugad.
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I'm not changing church membership. I'm going to bother you Jesus.
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And so Jesus said, whoa, I'm impressed, and he said
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that moment that girl was healed. Wow, she said for this, saying,
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because of your faith, go your way. The demon has
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gone out of your daughter. And when she come to
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her house, she found the demon gone and her daughter
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lying on the bed.
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I don't know.
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I think we have many challenges. Some families have different
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I don't know what we are going through. I'm learning
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from scripture and I apply that scripture and I will
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wait on the Lord. She was not about to leave.
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Sometimes our prayer not answered. Now we give up. Sometimes
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we don't see the miracle. Now we get all that. Oh, no, useless.
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There is such a thing as willing to wait, willing
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to take only what Jesus can give. Because I heard,
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and I've got this faith, and i have a desperate need.
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And this lady said, I don't care. You can give
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me the crumbs. I'll take what you give. I'm not
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picky beggars can't be choosers. Hand over the crumbs, okay.
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And Jesus like, whoa you get? You don't just get crumbs,
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you get.
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The whole works. And the child was delivered.
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So, friends, another key to you. When you have a
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faith filled desperate cry, it's full of faith. I believe
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you push to you will see that miracle that answered
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prayer that direction. Maybe it won't happen immediately. Sometimes this
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won't happen immediately. Sometimes just just trust the Lord. Wait, wait,
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and you will see what is it and how God
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will do it. That is God's time, God's way of
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doing it. I just want to wait and trust God
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because I'm my faith is only in him, because I've
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heard and faith has built up.
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In my heart.
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I want that miracle. Only Jesus can give amen. Amen,
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And that's a key again in his keys and the kingdom.
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You gotta take it because sometimes we come and we
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ask like, Lala, you want to heal you human like Jesus.
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You pray like God not gonna hear you right here.
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You don't use that nap.
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But I still can go see doctor. Okay, now you
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can see the doctor. But we want not only to
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see the doctor. We also want to top up with
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Jesus's healing because he says bye bye his stripes. We
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are healed now, not not. I know, not everything gets heal,
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not everybody gets here. But the journey, the process is
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very important. And my dad did not. My late dad
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did not get healed from from the last round of cancer.
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I took him and to do the therapy. But I
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tell you the journey and the process of how God
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provided financially, how God opened the doors to the medical doctors,
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and even just preparing my father to meet Jesus.
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He was ready to meet God. I'm ready.
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Jesus takes me home and within a month of his
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worse of the worst, he went home to the Lord
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but the process, the trusting, the faith filled Christ. Lord,
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you know, help us. God just took us through that journey.
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Sometimes I feel the journey is more precious than just
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getting the answer, because it just draws us to a
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good God, a good Father who brings us true.
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We will all go through. If the mountain won't split,
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God will bring us over it, through it. But He's
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there for us. Amen. But the faith fueled desperate cry
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that only Jesus can answer. Amen.
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Next one, God, run quickly faith in the authority of Christ.
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Ow do you know that you have authority in Christ Jesus.
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When you speak the word, when you pray.
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So that was what happened to the Roman centurion who
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came to Jesus in Mathter chapter eight, and he was
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seeking for help from Jesus. So I turned to Matthew
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chapter eight and verse five ten to ten thirteen. So
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this is the background. There was a Roman centurion.
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He was eight.
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Okay, what's a centurion? A captain of an army of
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one hundred people? A centurion. So he was a captain
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of a one hundred soldiers. A one hundred soldiers quite
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a lot, right, a lot?
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Right?
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But why this captain now because of one soldiers suck
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it a sig.
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He's so yum, you know.
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He won dead soldier on the army, on duty or what.
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But it looks like he had compassion. Maybe he felt
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for his soldier, his man and the man, and this
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soldier was sick. So Romans Matthew, Chapter eight, verse five onwards.
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This is the Roman centurion. Jesus entered Caponium, and the
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centurion came to him, pleading with him.
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He found Jesus and he came pleading.
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He said, Lord, my servant is lying at home, paralyzed,
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dreadfully tormented.
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Don't know what.
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Sickness was he going to, but dreadfully tormented. He's paralyzed.
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Cannot match with the whole battalion, the whole one hundred,
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they cannot match, not complete, ninety nine so many, but
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still that.
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One, he said Jesus pleading with him.
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He says, my servant is lying at home paralyzed.
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And this time Paster Jesus very good. He said, I'll come,
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du all right, And this is a Roman centurion said
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I'll come, I will come and heal him.
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But then the centurion answered and said, look, Lord, I'm
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not worthy. I'm not worthy for you to come, you know,
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come to my house. No, no, oh no, just only
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speak the.
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Word, Jesus. You just speak the word.
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Because the Roman centuri said, I run a captain of
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one hundred.
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I tell the soldier come you come, I tell you go,
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you go right.
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So Jesus, which means the Roman centurion understood the authority
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that Christ already walked in, and he was willing to
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come under that authority and just said Jesus, no, no,
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you don't need to come to my home.
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I'm not worthy, like you're not worthy. Oh, you're not worthy.
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You just speak the word and my man will be well.
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And then Jesus heard it, and Jesus said, wow, assuredly,
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I say to you, I have not found such faith,
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and not even in Israel.
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And you've read this one hundred times. Well, I caught
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there was that.
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This. That's how we speak into our circumstances. You have
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authority in Christ.
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This centurion recognized the authority that Christ was and is
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and is to come Jesus, don't come. Just speak the word.
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Many times, we just need to know our authority in
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Christ and speak healing and speak, you know, into that
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circumstance to say, you know that will take your hands
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off my child, take your hands off my job, take
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your hands off my nation. You've got to speak in
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the name of Jesus, not just yourself. In the name
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of Jesus, take your hands off my child, take your
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hands off there you speak in the.
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Authority in Christ. We said, who are the righteous of
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the Lord? How many people in the room that are
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righteous of the Lord? Wave it all around? All right?
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That same righteousness is where you are standing in the
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authority of Christ.
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Do we speak that?
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I find it many times we're just lazy. Christians are
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lazy to even speak the cambrailla. I'm like, I'm not
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worthy to come to your house. I'm not worthy to
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come to your house. You speak the word and do
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your situation. Because the authority is not laid only on
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the pastor. I'm just I'm just the role. The pastor
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word is just a title. Rad I'm still like you right, flesh, blood,
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same Cairo. Okay, that will come by my faith. I
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will have faith with you. But sometimes you're at home,
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you're you're there. I'm I'm bring not how many I'm
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somewhere And Charlah took me an hour to get here,
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and then you can wait for me one hour.
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And then you say how now, I say.
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You pray for us Lah, you speak l in the
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name of Jesus, declare that whatever that circumstance is would
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be anything. Then you have the faith God. Here's the
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one whose faith is in the authority of Christ. And
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even for yourself.
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You have authority.
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We are all walking in the authority of Christ when
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we call him my master and our amen. So that
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that that word Jesus said, Wow, I've never seen such faith.
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He says, go your way as you have been, so
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let it be done for you.
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We're all needing to grow our faith. And I know
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not overnight, but honestly, faith is the currency of Heaven.
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There's so much that has happened in acts. And it's
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not just on the faith I pray on past the
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Kennev who really walks it. But I believe all of you.
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You want you planting this churche because you had the faith.
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You didn't have to plant examinee you and Sam you didn't.
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But you did it.
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You wouldn't have done it. Maybe you know ten years
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ago what say what? But then you've done it. Faith
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comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
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Faith comes as we where we see things were part
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of it. We can see God moving and we say, wow, Lord,
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I to understand in that authority and speak into that situation.
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Don't just sit in your in your pain. Don't just
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sit there and saying, oh's gone. Whatever that circumstance would
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be your business, would be, your family situation, your marriage,
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your studies, you know, your friendships, whatever it is. Don't
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just sit there and go like okay, Sarah, Sarah like
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or whatever will be will be.
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No.
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No, We're a child of God cannot be just whatever
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will be. It is your will be done in my life.
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And God's will is never lesser. He's always perfect, His
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ways are perfect, His ways are higher, his thoughts are
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higher for us. He always has a future and hope
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for us. We cannot just sit down and just lie
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there and go like whatever. No, don't say that. You
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speak the word of life. You speak healing to your body.
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You speak progress, progression in wherever you're at. Maybe I'm
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not so good a worker whatever, but Lord, I want
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to get better. I want to be Lord. I'm not
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very creative, but give me that grace. I speak that
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cause that creativity to arise in my spirit. How you
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read God's word, you spend time meditating on God's work.
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This is the word of life. The word of life
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will come in and cause us to change.
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Amen.
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Those are the faith, those are the This is what
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God hears. Number one, he hears the cry from the righteous.
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He hears those who fear the Lord. He hears those
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who call upon him in truth. Okay, please don't beat
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around the bush with Jesus, just tell him the truth.
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He also hears the faith feel desperate cry and a
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faith that you have is in the authority of Christ.
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Nothing else. Faith in authority of Christ. Amen. And that's
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what the Lord hears. So those are very positive. Amen.
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I always take the keys and say, Okay, if I'm
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in a situation, let me meditate on God's word. Let
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me apply God's word. But I want to say, I
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have something else to you. Oh, before I go to
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the something else. Closing this section of the Goodness of God,
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First John, chapter five, verse fourteen to fifteen. First John,
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chapter five, verse fourteen to fifteen, he says, now this
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is everybody, say the one more time. I can't hear
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you yees say it confidently. Okay, say it like you
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believe it.
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Now. This is the.
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That we have in Him that if we ask anything
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according to his will, he a man operative word.
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And if we know that he hears us whatever.
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We ask, we know we know that we have the
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petitions that we.
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Have ass of Him. We must have that confidence.
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I think many times we don't have the confidence that
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God will come through for us. We're like guessinging maybe,
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but maybe I'm.
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Not righteous enough.
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No, lie, you have to know who you are in Christ,
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righteous one, fear the Lord, speak the truth, faith, feel
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desperate crime. Hey, I'm believing and I'm walking in the
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of Christ. That's where my confidence is in Him.
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Amen. Amen, And we will go to many many things. Friends.
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You know, okay, it is not not jumping on you, bro,
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but some people tell me, you know.
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I just not you all. I'm not talking about you.
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Don't.
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Don't look at these people. I just heard in on
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the news.
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This is happening in I don't know where this is,
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but it's going around a bit quite. I think it's
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happening in different places. But this person on the news said,
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and they were interviewing on CNN, and he said, why
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are the young adults not getting married. And she said, yeah,
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so this lady whose author said, well, because they're all cohabitating,
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because it's just too expensive to get married.
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So they had two young adults, one from Soul, Korea.
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And you know, and I think from China. They us
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then yeah, yeah, it could be the money. I don't
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know what I like. I heard it and forget listen, listen.
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But but that's the problem she gave us the whole thing.
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I want to say to you when Pastor Kenna's got
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married to me, he earned nothing like any of you earned.
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I'll tell you what he earned. Five hundred ring gate.
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He served the church full time and they gave him
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five hundred ring gate. And he's going to have a wife.
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So you asked him to get married. Love you're married
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or not, you should scare. Scare four hundred how do
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every month? A hundred three hundred ready, three hundred ringave
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for petrol?
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Is very far? But he had to take it by faith.
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I had to choose to get married by.
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I had left my corporate life, normal corporate.
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I was being trained to be a missionary, so I
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went to teach English.
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After I got my third so I went to teach English,
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not much that time.
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I didn't dare tell my parents how much my husband
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to be with me earning love.
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They just know his full time in the church. Five
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hundred ring it Well, you need faith to get married too,
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not just money. You need faith. So how we tell
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anyone you can get married?
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You don't need fifty thousand, You just need faith, and
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what you have you pray God multiplied. You don't have
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to be extravagant, and you don't have to beat your
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next couple that glass got married, or by the biggest
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ring or the smallest ring or whatever.
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You need to trust God. And we've told this to.
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Many of our team of leaders. Many of our team
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of leaders are corporate leaders in that, but they all
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gone full time.
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I don't pay them five hundred. We don't pay our
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stuff five hundred.
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Okay, we pay them as much as we can do,
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but will always be a drop because we are dependent
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on donations.
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Right by faith.
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But you have this confidence in the Lord that he
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will provide that you ask of him.
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I think I must have a.
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Lot of trust in my Jesus to American and chin
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because both of us don't come from rich families. My
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father lost everything. His father don't know want, I don't
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know where all the money. When our parents went very
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good with managing money, God still gave us a wedding
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of eight hundred people, which my husband will tell you
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seven hundred and ninety were my friends. Okay, okay, we
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still had it and God provided every step in fact
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us again, I paid for most of the bills.
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My dad only gave me a small amount.
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To take care of my bills, but passes to care
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of everything. And with Chinese weddings we always have a
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little bit extra God provide, which went into the ministry later.
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But we need to take steps of faith. What you
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can see right, we walk by faith and not by sight.
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But who do we cry out to?
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To the one who hears the cry of the righteous,
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the one who feared the Lord, the one who has
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you know, speaking truth, the one who has faith filled
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faith filled desperate crank God, I don't know. I want
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to pay the bill, but I was happy, go lucky.
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It was all on my husband to be his shoulder. Yeah,
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I know, worry one day, oh your problems, because my
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confidence was in the Lord. Just happy to get married.
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Are you all right? But where is your confidence? Whatever
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that is. Don't play play. We have a father God
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that provides and leads us. I just want to encourage
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your faith. Don't throw away this whole, this hole, this
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big thing in our Christian work is faith. Faith is
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the currency of heaven. In Malaysia we use ring it.
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In Japan we use the In Australia we use the
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Australian dollar. Alright, in the UK we have the pound
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word about heaven. Well, we're living heaven on earth. We
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need faith. Amen, So grow your faith. Take steps of faith.
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Small steps don't have to be bigger yo. No, we
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have to walk by faith and not by sight. The
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more you walk by sight, you will not experience the supernatural.
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The more you take those steps of faith, all of
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us have to walk that step of faith. I also
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have to just because on full time. You don't think
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I have challenges. I have to buy faith go through
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those things too. I want to encourage us. We all
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walk by faith, not by side. But let faith come
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by hearing and hearing the word of God. Testimony time
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is so important. It deuilds faith right and then reading
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the Word of God it builds faith, not just watching
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YouTube preaching.
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It builds faith you must know what God's worth.
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Say, if you don't read the love letter that God
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sent us, that's that's where faith is built, not just
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on the testimonies of the You must also come back
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to God's way.
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All right? Now have confidence? Amen, people here. Amen. Amen,
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you're going to something. I want to encourage you. We
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build up our faith. Tell you how I got married.
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It was by faith five hundred dollars salary, but we
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still got married. It wasn't a cheap marriage. We paid everything.
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Amen. God helps by faith. Amen. But I want to
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ask you this question.
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What else does God hear? What else does God hear anyone? Well,
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this is why we need to do this. He hears
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your complaints and you're murmuring. Ah, he hears your complaints
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and your murmurings. Oh my word, would you like God
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to hear your complaints and murmur rings.
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Well, we have to look at what the Word of
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God says.
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Okay, So Exodus. So Exodus sixteen, verse two right and eight. Okay,
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Exodus sixteen. Now remember in the book of Exodus is
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when you see the children of Israel marching out of Egypt,
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and they said, yes, Moses will follow you. He's going
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to deliver us out of Egypt into the Promised Land.
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They were slaves, Remember, they were slaves after Joseph died.
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They became slaves with the new pharaoh.
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Before the new pharaoh, and when Joseph was still alive,
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they were living comfortably in the land of Goshen.
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They multiplied like rabbits.
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They just grew and grew and grew us so no
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one person probably had five to twelve children. Who knows, right,
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because they multiplied so much that when the new pharaoh
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came on board, he didn't know Joseph, he didn't know
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who is with And they said, these people are going
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to be a danger to us, a threat.
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Because look at them.
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There are just so many of them, and so we
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will make them slaves and also ask them to if
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they've borne a boy, they are to drown the boy
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killed the boy.
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No baby, boys, all girls only, all right.
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But there was one person called Moses that was saved
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and God had preserved his life, and he brought the
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people out of Egypt.
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So you can read that in Exodus.
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But Exodus sixteen is what happens when they marched out
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and they moved on, and then this is what happened
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in verse two, the whole Congregation of the Children of Israel,
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while they moved out of Egypt, left everything there now
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in desert Lana.
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I don't know why. You've seen the map of.
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Egypt coming out. Actually it's all desert Lana. And they're
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coming out and they haven't They already crossed the Red Sea,
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so they really have the miracle. Anybody across the Red
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Sea before it was anybody cross anything. You know what
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the part is?
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What the part?
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You know you're waving at the whale, yo shark and
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across on dry land. So they were already now in
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the Arab desert already right Middle East.
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So they're marching.
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Then the whole Congregation of the Children of Israel complain against.
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Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. They complain.
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Do you know how many people came out of the
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of the of Egypt?
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Anybody give a guess? Two million? Two million?
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In ten minutes, two million people marched out. No hand phone, brother,
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no loudhailer. I don't know how communication happened. We have
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two million people.
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This is called the power of the grape vine. I
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heard it on the grape vine gossip.
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When it goes it can fly four norfold people gotsive,
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people will talk.
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Two million people.
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Moses, Moses, I don't know why they complain. I'm eating
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gravel from the ground.
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You're okay.
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Two million people complain against Moses and Aaron.
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It's very loud lighting. Wow. What were they saying. They
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were just saying things.
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About drink and food, as if God don't care what
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to give them to eat. So Exodus sixteen, if you
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look at it, if you turn to it, then you
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have an idea of what it was. The Cole Congregational
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children of Israel, Exodus sixteen, verse two. They complain against
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Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
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What did they say? They said, oh, oh.
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That we had died by the hand of the Lord
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in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the
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pots of meat and we ate bread to the full.
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For you have brought us out into the wilderness to
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kill us. The whole assembly with hunger.
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They were hungry. They had brought some flat bretler. Okay,
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so they complained.
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Lah, they complained, and the Lord heard their complains, which
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at the end of it he said, Moses said, when
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you complain, you're not complaining against me. You're actually complaining
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against the Lord. And your complain really, you know, is
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you're mumbling there. But it's not against us, it's against
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the Lord. So that's why the Lord heard it. The
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Lord heard it sometimes, you know, and God puts authority
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over your lives. It's not just simply authority that if
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the Lot put that there, it is the Lord's doing.
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And when you and I complain about mom and dad,
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principle of your school, boss, of your company, you complain.
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Sometimes you're saying, God, you don't know what you're doing.
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You complain, and the Lord heard it. So I just
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want you to know that God hears your murmurings, our murmurings,
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and our complaints, even in the secret place. Because this
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says the whole congregation very two millionaires, Wow can hurt?
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Wow? So CAUs on right? And but the Lord heard it?
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And what did you do?
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So in verse eight for the Lord, here's your complaints
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which you are making against him? And what are we
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Your complaints are not against us, but against the Lord.
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And the Lord then hurt the complaint, and he he
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still provided food for them. He provided manner, He provided
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food angel food from heaven. Yeah, in the morning. And
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then they said they didn't have meat, so he gave
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them quail in the evening.
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How did the quail fly in? From? Where? Which wind?
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The Lord blew in and the quails came in the evening,
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so they had man are in the morning, quail in
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the night in the evening.
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You have to read the whole thing. That's why I
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say you have to read the Exodus.
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You got to read the numbers, You got to read
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the Deuteronomy, and then you come back to Livetticus because
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there was all law.
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And then you see the journey. So he provided, he provided.
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But knowing that, wow, they complained against the lord. Numbers
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eleven numbers eleven? What else happened you? It feels like
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they never stopped complaining. Are your complainers?
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Okay? But we don't want to live complaining forever?
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Right? I also complain. We complain so many things. We
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complain about our government laws, We complain about this. We
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complain no water that they.
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Know what is like? Oh yeah, what the way? We
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keep murmuring?
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But how is the heart when we murmur? Can it
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be happy when you murma? Can you be happy when
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you murmur? No? You you you're angry and you're upset
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about something, and you murmur right, So this eleven again,
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it says verse one.
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Now when the people complain, it displeased the Lord, for
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the Lord heard it.
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Okay, So again throughout the forty years they were complaining.
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Can you live forty years complaining murmury? We could be
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heard if I don't know who murmurs more male or female.
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M I don't know. Some man knows.
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Naggy maybe, or maybe they're naggy, you know, they just
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my husband or husband changed on the husband, change husband,
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changing on about husband. Can I change myself? Like I
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don't know whatever it is. The whole congregation again complain.
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So I just want to say that it's dangerous because
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it displeased.
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We all want to please the Lord, not displease the Lord. Amen.
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I just want to bring this to us. I won't
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go to John and James. It means the same thing
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because in John Jesus told the people stop complaining. They
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were complaining about, Oh, Jesus, why you make us during
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the blood Lord eat your flesh.
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Actually he was talking about the.
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Future that he will he will die and then be resurrected,
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and then he will give us the communion right, But
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it is his body that will die for us, his
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blood that will shed for us.
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They couldn't see it.
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James also speaks about, you know, complaining against one another.
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Stop it, He says, because good does not delight in
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murmuring and complaining. All right, So I want to come
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to us and say what happens when we murmur? See,
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we want to walk always up right before the Lord.
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We want to walk having open heaven always there is
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our god desire for us. That is what we want.
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But what stops the prayer from being answer? What stops
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us from breaking through? Sometimes? Sometimes?
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Why?
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Maybe it's because our murmuring. What's the children of Israel
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from this obedience to murmuring forty years?
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Friends?
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We don't want to spend forty years wildering around something
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when we can actually have breakthroughs and walking in peace
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and joy.
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So what happens when we murmur? Number one?
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We lose sight of God's plan. It's very dangerous to
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lose sight of God's plan. Our faith is lost. We
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lose sight of God's promises. The children of Israel complained
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so much that they lost sight of the plan, and
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the plan was to get them to Canaan lend the
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promise land amen. Sometimes, as we're so caught up with
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our disagreements and unhappiness, where we lose the purpose of
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why did I get married in the first place? First,
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first you marry God, I mean loved. Now you're married
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five years? Like, I hate these guds, this reality there
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as a past. I had to walk too many many marriages,
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And I ask you, why did you first marry You
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chose him. I didn't ask you to marry him because
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he was funny, and so why is he not funny? Now? No?
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He irritates me. So it irritates you. What do you do?
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You walk out, You work on it. Stop being irritating,
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be kind, be generous.
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Sometimes, like dead load marriage, we can work it through
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and there's not third party involved, and he's just just irritating.
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It doesn't make me laugh anymore. Do you think I'm married?
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You do?
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You can make me laugh?
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Sometimes, very immature when people and in counseling we already
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asked those questions, but oh, come on, we lose sight
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of the plan.
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We lose sight of why we first of all.
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Came to kl came to Malaysia. Why And we start
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complaining because we're filled with all the negativity. We forgot
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why we're even here, why we even have this, why
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we started the business?
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Why am I doing my PhD? Because now my head
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is damaged? Okay, all right?
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Why because because the God lead me here, because I
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chose to do that, and I stand on my ground.
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Be consistent. I think so many times we're not consistent.
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We shave, We shave gold posts. Goal here, goal goal life?
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Is I there? In marriage the same thing we're talking about.
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You didn't buy dinner, but the wife would dig out
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something else from two years ago.
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Not only you didn't buy dinner, you didn't buy dinner
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for my mother. Save gold posts. Again.
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We lose sight of the plan of why we did
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what we did, all right, so continue to mama, you
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will continue to lose sight of the plan, the promise.
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The re isn't why God has brought us here because
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we answered a call. We believe something. We don't want
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to lose sight of the plant. So easily we can
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lose sight. Number two, we allow doubt to rule. That's
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what happened, that chure issue. They begin to doubt the
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goodness of God after seeing a red sea part.
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They are now saying, I'm hungry, You're not going to
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feed me. I should have died. We should have just died.
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We should have remained at least in Egypt, we would
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have melons and leaks and garlic and onion and fish.
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Now we eating sand.
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We doubt. We allow doubt to rule instead of trust.
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That happened. It had happened.
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It happens to all of us as well when we
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lose sight, when we murmur and murmur. Actually, the more
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you complain about your boss, about whatever, and as if
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you're starting to make do something love, why you complain,
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Either speak up or leave, find something else. Stop murmuring.
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It will eat you up. It will make you very down.
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It will squeeze the life out of you. And then
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you say somebody else got you there.
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No, you got.
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Yourself there, because there is deep I don't know what
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you call it, rubbish inside It clogged up your system.
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We allow doubt to rule when we murmur constantly about
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another person about situation number three.
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We will let unbelief grow. Believe that we will let
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unbelieved grow. Anything you plant and you nicely water it
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will grow. Right. So you have a seed of anger,
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and you keep watering it, what will grow?
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You have a plan of this contentment, you keep watering it,
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it will grow. Same thing, your unbelief will grow. The
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more you disbelieve your leader, your boss, your parent, your whatever,
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the authority over you or the plan, it will grow
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and you will develop even more unbelief. We don't want unbelief.
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Come on, come on.
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Oh we cannot, we cannot. I tell you.
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We want to grow faith. We want to grow our hope.
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We want to live into our future. Amen, allelujah.
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Amen.
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So I'm just running through because time is running out
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on my all. Right, well lose sight of God's plan.
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We allow doubt to rule. We let unbelief grow. And
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that's how I'm just saying. In reality, that's how we
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either kill or raise up something. You kill it by
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having doubt, unbelieve, you know, forget why we even got here.
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And then I want to say this very important thing,
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this plan, because this is what happens to the children issue.
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You study numbers, you'll see that in numbers eleven and fourteen,
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you'll see how they just became. They just lost it.
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They lost the plot for lee. We invite curses to
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come upon us. Why do I see that? Because it's
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a cycle. Right, You keep complaining you open yourself up
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to more negativity. You just keep opening up nothing else
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nice to say, not sowing even any positive words. Wow,
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that's it. What did the children of Israel say? If
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you read numbers fourteen? I think in twenty eight they
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all the timer. They kept saying, Ah, we should have
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just died, We should just you should have just left
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us in the desert.
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And then we just you know, just there because it's so.
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This is finally, when the Lord had to make the decision,
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he says, say to them, as I live, says the Lord.
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This is numbers fourteen and verse twenty eight. Say to them,
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as I live, says the Lord. Just as you have
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spoken in my hearing, you spoke it out my hearing.
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So I will do to you. And this is what
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I'll do to you.
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The caucasses of you who have complained against me shall
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fall in the wilderness. And all of you were numbered
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according to your entire number, from twenty years.
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Old and above.
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All of those who are twenty years and above died
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in the wilderness. God is very patient, He's not rushing
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forty years our wit. I think we all wait one
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day or so, we like pulling hair ready, But God said,
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it's okay.
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I will not bring in.
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Rubbish into the Promised Land. I will not bring in
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disbelief and unbelief. I'm gonna come in by faith. This
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is not me saying and judge.
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This is Bible words. God is so bad. No, he
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wanted good things.
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But because we distrust God, we so unbelieve, we so doubt,
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we sow negativity, we call curses.
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They every time they.
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Complained, they will say, we should have just died, We
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should have just died. So you speak our tongue has
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what power off death and life? You want something to grow,
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you either speak deaf or you speak life to it. Amen,
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it's so dangerous.
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Amen, not amen. Ouch.
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So they were speaking death into their purpose, into the promise,
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into their future.
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Complaining does this.
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I don't know how long somebody can complain, but I
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have seen some people like this. Every time I talk
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to them, they are talking the same thing. Either they
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cannot forgive somebody, or they just cannot see eye to
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eye with someone, or they just bring back the past.
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And I'm like, but that's the past. You can do
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something about your present and your future. We just gotta
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walk away from that lie, from that hurt from that
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offense and walk away and walk in the light as
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Jesus is in the light. This is another key Church,
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Your key to your walking in the freedom of Christ
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is stop murmuring, complaining, gossiping, negativity. It will rob not
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only you but the people around you. How many times
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we have seen gossip killing not only the dreams that
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is for you, even for others because they get influence
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and go like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think God don't
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love us anymore.
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That's what the two million people did.
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Maybe not all two million, but there was a majority
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that had unbelieved a majority, but wow, it really affected everyone.
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And later on, as you read on, you will see
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a rebellion that was lead. Two hundred and fifty people
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died everyth they came against Moses.
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You can read that it's very dangerous.
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The more you complain, the more you talk in the
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corners you think nobody here. God hears, and you break
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his heart because His plans for us are perfect, all right,
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So remember these for things are what happens to me, Mama.
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We will lose sight of God's plan, we allow doubt
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to rule, We'll let unbelieved to grow, and we invite
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churs us to come upon us. I don't want this
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for myself.
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Not for you. I give you the keys. And so
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how do we overcome that?
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He also were talking about what God hears, right, he
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hears all these things.
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So what so then, what do we do to reverse that?
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Number one? Come on, put on the garment of praise.
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Come on, every time you have so irritated with somebody,
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praise Jesus.
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Right, Oh kaylor you can't play that. You can't play,
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thank you Jesus.
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You gotta put on the garment of praise and take
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off the garments of all the all of our anger
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and all of our disbelief. Right, put on the garment
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of praise Isaiah sixty one and verse three.
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Amen.
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Because it says that all the ashes always sit in ashes.
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But he says, yeah, to give them the beauty for ashes,
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and then the oil of joy for mourning, and the
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common of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Cota Eno
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said Steven. And the more we complain the spirit of heaviness,
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you don't believe it. I tell you that non Christians
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believe such things. Spirit of heaviness, the spirit of evil,
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evil works, will sit on your head, on your shoulder,
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and then you go like the hunchbag of not too dumb.
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Then for a whole life like that.
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No, let us ask for beauty for ashes, the oil
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of joy for mourning, and put on the garment of
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praise for the spirit of heaviness when you feel down.
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And I've experienced this, when I feel that there's just
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too much, sometimes doubts, sometimes words are man that people
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will say a lot of things. What do I do?
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I go, God passes, Stephen. I can complain to you
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like you see a letter, and I can't do that. Now.
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If Ussus Stephen.
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Has wisdom of the Lord, the Holy Man of God,
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you say, pass to stop it. Put on the garment
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of praise, okay.
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And then praise Scotlon Okay, Toby, what does he say?
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Even I think there's one song we singer. What's the
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song I forgot? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you know.
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So like, don't stop stop complaining, stop speaking, I start
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speaking out right.
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I praise when I'm done, I praise when what song
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is that? Praise? When da naa pray it's a lot,
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oh my soul.
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Right, So even when I'm down, even when I'm out,
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I'm still gonna praise, right, don't just sing it as
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a great song on Sunday. Sing it to your Monday
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and your Saturday. Come on, singing into your your your sickness,
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singing into your problem. Don't just sing it on Sunday.
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So I tell the worship team stop singing popular songs.
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Sing songs that people can sing from Monday to Saturday.
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Right church, you cannot you go home.
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I forgot this.
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I forgot the song because so long a loud the words.
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That's why we make you sing the same song four weeks.
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It helped me so much as I laid it for
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four weeks. I know can remember the words at least
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and remember that you not. So then we go home
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and we sing when our life gets into complication, when
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we're down, when the results come on and you didn't
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get you I don't know.
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One hundred marks you got eighty eight max not good enough?
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Do youla? I don't know what you do?
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What do you do?
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Do you complain? Do you go and curse God? Do
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you tell how to give up my faith?
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No?
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Praise the Lord? Oh Ma? So you praise when you're no, No,
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only praise when you're happy. Who cannot do that?
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Can do that?
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Ali and Mutu can do that, but you don't just
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in a si Lama Ali, Mutu and whatever his name is.
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But you better be praising God. Put on the government
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of praise. Next. Another thing that God loves hearing. No,
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only praises.
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Gratitude and thanksgiving first. Thessalonians, Chapter five, verse eighteen. Anybody
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here ask the question, and not what is the will
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of God?
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You're so excited. I want to know the will of God.
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I don't know if I have a seminar how to
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know the will of God? Everybody will come, Come and
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learn to pray? Nobody come, come and do missions? Nobody
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come how to find your love life? Yes, come, all right,
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So I say, how to know the will of God?
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I tell you what the will of God has already
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written in the Bible. This is the will of God.
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Give thanks right in everything, Give thanks for this is
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the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
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Friends, gratitude. Sometimes we are so not grateful for our
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parents who paid the price. We don't understand. Now. I'm
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looking at You're gonna be.
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Parents if you just marry it, right, I'm just thinking
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the cost of education today.
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All scared.
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No, No, don't have more than one child. Please, I
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have two love three. By faith, God will provide.
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If not, we cannot.
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Populate the Oh Jesus is be foodful and multiply. He
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also a multiply for you. We sometly forget what our
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parents have paid for us. We score them. Sometimes when
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we grow older. I don't call me older, then you
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forget why grateful. God is very big on thankfulness. They
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forgot to say, thank you, Lord, you took me out
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of slavery into your promised land. They've forgotten wow we
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experience Until today, my dear friends, the Jewish people can
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only talk about the Red Sea because never before in
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the history of the world has anyone experienced a parting
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of a red sea. Never until two days the world
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knows what God has done for the Jewish nation.
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They hate them.
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God will fight for Israel, but they always forget. They
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don't know how to be thankful. You and I we
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better practice thanksgiving just sometimes, just whatever the difference is.
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You must just remember what what did your mom do
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for you? What did my pastor do for me? I'm
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sure they've done something for you good. Aside from all
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the schooling, I don't know why the school life. Something
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something that your friend, your home, leader, your boss. There
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must be something you can say thank you God for gratefulness.
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Gratefulness it breaks God's heart.
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I can't imagine.
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I'm not gotten. No, I'm just a human child of God.
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Just sometime people, wow, you say all this. I remember
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walking with you to your valley today. You're all big
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ALREADI and you just leave not a memory at all.
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What the times I must at least say thank you
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for all this. We are grateful, but we've got something else.
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That's fine to leave to talk about our parents or
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our you know, people who have helped you. Love. God
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has helped us over and over and over again. He
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carries us. Please exercise the will of God.
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Be thankful, give thanks.
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Someone told me that, so even if this situation I'm
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in suffering, I give thanks.
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The person offended made Yes. Yes, you just say thank
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you Lord.
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I don't know what the result, but I thank you
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your My life is in your hands, not in the
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in the in the hands of the law, or my hand.
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My life is in your hands. In your hands is
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my future, my hope. Everything you say, thank you Lord,
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Praise you Jesus. I also have to learn to do this.
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You will never know until you get to your lowest
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point and nobody helps you the power of praise. The
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power you've got to unlock it. Not just praising as
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worship leader half the time. That's just praising on a
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good day, Praising when you're down, Praising when nobody is
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with you. Praise him when the water's not there. Praise
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him and the promotion didn't happen you praise him, Amen,
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the garment of praise.
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The Thank you Lord, you are in control. Thank you Lord.
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Number three. Conversations that build I'll to turn it around.
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We eficients, Chapter five, nineteen to twenty one. Guys, Just remember,
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if our conversations are going to kill somebody, put someone down.
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Then it's not good. It's not gonna change.
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Let's build conversations that will build up that were encouraged
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speaking the facts is one thing. Yeah, oh, this is
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the fact this person. When it's full stop there, don't
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keep building on it. All of us have to learn
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that conversations that build up, build up, look for the
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good in that thing.
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Otherwise don't talk. Amen. And then the next one is
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please God above, Please God above, or.
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More than anything, whatever you and I do try speak
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to your spirit and say God, I want to please
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you Lord. Everyone asks me a lot, a lot of
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young couples, so people start dating spasa. I want, I
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want to please God my relationship how oh, then you
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ask me design? I say, please God means to just
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honor God with your purity.
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Don't let your.
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Hands go everywhere. Don't hang out alone in the girl's room.
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You did you did in McDonald's in the lights bright,
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I don't see the can't talk forever, and your hands
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go where you want to please God, you do it
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out in the open. You want to please God, your
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ministry to honest, honest, don't gosship. Don't then become like
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a snake. I don't want to be really associated with snake,
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the stipen.
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I don't want to be.
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Associated with Jesus. So above everything else, please God, Amen,
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Please God. You see that in Hebrews eleven six. By
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faith only, how do you please God? We have to
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come to God by faith that pleases him. When you
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ask him by faith, then you please him right. But
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without faith it is impossible to please him. For he
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who comes to God must believe that he is. No,
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he's not he was, but he is when God speak
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to you, you say, Stephen, I ease if you were
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black eyes. Okay, he is, and that he is every
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warder of those who diligently seek him. So above all things,
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please God, Amen, that's your points.
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I either you called it for all. Remember this.
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Don't complain, don't mama, and I'll give you Malachi three sixteen.
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Last word. Those who feared the.
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Lord spoke to one another. Did you know that the
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Lord listened and hurt them? And a book of remembrance
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was written before him. Those who fear the Lord and
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who meditate on his name, extremely can come out.
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Those who feared the Lord spoke to one.
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Another, and the Lord listen and hurt them, And a
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book of remembrance was written before him.
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For those who fear the Lord and.
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Who meditate on his name, hallelujah. Did you know that
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God listens to your conversations. He hears what you speak
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when you speak about Him to one another, when you
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praise God, when you share testimonies, when you say, wow,
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the Lord helped me in my time of need. Those
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who feared the Lord, those who honored the Lord spoke
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to one another spoke. But what, oh, this is what
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the Lord did. Oh, I almost fell. I was in
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the ditch, and the Lord lifted me up. The Lord listens.
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You fear the Lord and not God can hear your
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conversations and my conversations. That's why I said, just tell
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God honestly how you feel, rather that I tell other people,
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and but never tell God because truth is not coming.
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For He hears all the complaints. He hears all the
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cry of the righteous.
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Da da da. But God also sits, and he can
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hear as you speak to one another. What are you
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speaking to one another?
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Because a book of remembrance was written before the Lord
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for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on
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his name. I'm giving you the keys of the Kingdom
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on how to walk with Jesus. Heys that I myself
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am learning and practicing and seeing break truth. Don't walk
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away from what God is saying to us. Amen, what
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does he hear? He hears all the positive I showed
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you ready, But the more Panicuan, we are most scared
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the way we start murmuring, complaining and gussying. Yo, one
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will kill everybody. It will lose sight of his plan. Yeah,
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we will will allow doubt to grow. We will have unbelieve,
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and then we will invite us us on our life
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because we speak negative. But let's put on the garment
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of praise.
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Amen.
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Let us give thanks and give gratefulness to the Lord,
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to the people around us. Let us have conversations that
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were encouraged, that will build that. Try to find something
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positive to speak. And if we ever speak negative, you
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remind you, man, maybe we don't talk about this. Let's
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try to encourage another. Okay, and then above or please God,
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Please God more than anything. More than anything, you just
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want to please God. And therefore we have to walk
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by faith again. Come back to faith. Wow, we have
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to have faith again and say, Okay, Lord, I want
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to please you. I will come to you by faith
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in whatever we are doing. Amen, hallelujah, Thank you Jesus.
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I hope you take that in and walk with this,
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walk in your faith, walking the truth, because the Lord
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is the one who's working. He hears your prayer, Amen,
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he hears also your murmurings. But we don't want to
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give God murmurings. We want to give God thanksgiving.
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Amen.
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